LEAD MINE GIVEN AWAY
Derbyshire has given away a leadmine, according to usage so ancient that none can say when it began The custom is that when a leadmine has not been worked, according to the old law it may be claimed by men who are willing to begin again. The Blobber Mine has made and lost fortunes for its owners in the past hundred years; but the last of them gave up trying because of the water which flooded the workings. Three new owners offered to take the mine and install electric pumping plant to see if they could make a good job of it. Their offer was accepted by the Barmote Court, which controls lead mining in Derbyshire, and the Blobber was handed over to the claimants with all the ancient ceremony. The King’- Barmasler, Mr John I Morl, of Manchester, presided, and two of the Barmote Court’s grand J jurymen attended.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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154LEAD MINE GIVEN AWAY Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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